Article about the Kansas City Health Department and its dealings with venereal, or "social" diseases, especially syphilis and gonorrhea, including discussions about their treatment at the General Hospital...

Discussion of the "personnel difficulties encountered in the Water Department at Kansas City, Mo.," from the transition of the Pendergast machine in the late 1930s to the "reformed" city government of...

Article about the advertising and printing industries in Kansas City, starting the discussion with Louis Fox, revolutionizing wholesale grocery advertising in 1956 with the advertising department of Associated...

Photo and biographical article about Harley Tompkins, Jr., or Tony Tompkins, a "35-year-old fireman" and former policeman, Jackson County deputy sheriff, and music store salesman residing at 1521 Hardesty...

Article about "the program of adult education going forward under the FERA, with the hearty co-operation of the city's Board of Education" and supervised by Roy Gallemore. Description especially about...

Overview of the lifestyles of Missouri women in the 1820s, both for common and prominent women, with illustrations. Elaboration on women's roles at the time in food preparation, housekeeping, and manner...

Speech by George Collett, vice-president of "the Kansas City Stock Yards Company," giving a history of the Stockyards, starting with events in 1857 leading to the Stockyards' opening in 1871, and including...

Article about a trip mostly by foot through the state of Missouri by the author, traveling through and describing several towns and rural areas, including Laddonia, Hannibal, New London, Jefferson City,...

Two articles about W. Mark Felt identified as ''Deep Throat'' of the 1970s Watergate scandal that eventually led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon. Felt served in Kansas City as the FBI agent...

Obituary for Harold "Doc" Holliday, Jr., "the first African-American to graduate from the University of Missouri School of Law and a former member of the Jackson County legislature." Holliday was also...